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Quite frankly, that's a recipe for governments to do nothing then, even when private concerns won't (because they can't make sufficient returns, and you have to make high returns on investments in the UK, sadly; we're back with the old social necessity over profit argument.

Tram and train free are £10 a year on my TfGM old fogey's travel pass. Paid for itself in one trip to Atherton for a football match!

Not Robin?🙂

Nothing in the laws to say that the opponents must be given time to set up. IIRC, if a player is cautioned, the other side have an indirect free kick, if the play hasn't restarted

You forgot to mention the costs of maintaining the infrastructure to the standards required, let alone improving it, which are huge. This was one of the costs mentioned in the Beeching Report that swung the decision between retention or closure of many lines

A modest increase to 140 mph on HS2 wouldn't be bad; remember that the WCML upgrade in the late 1990s/early 2000s originally meant the Pendolinos travelling at that speed, only the engineers couldn't get the cab signalling to work.

And the financial institutions backing the project in the UK probably want it to pay for itself sooner than the equivalent on the continent; there is, and always has been to some extent, a "Get rich quick" mindset among British financial institutions, which has helped to push up costs in general

Where do any of those stop anyone from travelling? As for ULEZ, it's been estimated that 90% of vehicles within the zone, and 50% of those outside, are exempt. What is meant is that it bears down on travel by personal vehicle, which isn't quite the same thing. I'm beginning to find out that I don't need my car half as much as I thought I did. I can walk into my local town centre and get the bus home (it's mile and a bit uphill); I have a pensioners' bus pass, to which I've added free train and tram travel for £10 (thank you Mr. Burnham!), so that if I go into Manchester, I can seriously consider the train. I have a cycle with electric pedal assist, so that if not too much is being bought, even from "local" supermarkets, I can carry a couple of bags worth of stuff. I've even cycled to a couple of football matches.

Oh, yes, a tank full!

In Runcorn?

It was 16 months ago (week before Easter 2022. Forgotten its name. We were by no means the only people in the place; it was in the Liverpool 1 centre. It was cash only as well

Things like this have genuinely happened

Drinking (I morris). We found a pub in Liverpool last year at the JMO; so good we went back three times. The last time, we did one of our dances actually inside. What a publican like that doesn't realise is that morris dancers are usually quite copious drinkers; He's probably lost a lot of sales, there!

Speaking from experience, the beer must have been utter carp, then. Totally unusual for morris men (or women!) to enter a pub and not imbibe.

Harwich - Manchester dated back to at least early LNER days. I'm fairly sure it was established pre - grouping.

The idea is to iron the differences out; to say to the refs "If this occurs, this is the action we want you to take" I can well remember my local RA having a visit one meeting from a team from County, and them showing films of foul play and other situations, and asking what action we would take. After a discussion on the incident shown, the County official showed what the ref actually did (free kick only; caution; sending - off).

Be careful! Be very, very, careful!"

In the FIFA World Cup final competition, the refs. are brought together and given a "standardisation" course, so that they know what's expected of them in terms of decision - making

That's basically the entire law, not part of it! Anything else is advice and guidance for the officials

Fell apart on the Piccadilly - Oxford Road leg; the EMR train I was supposed to be on was running late, so I caught a later TfW 197 going to Llandudno (from where? Travel announcements in Welsh!) a bit later. Ran over the footbridge at Ox. Road and saw the train for the third leg disappearing up the platform. I believe we won 2 -1, but rats!

Offside is, or was , the shortest law in the LOAF. Checks when an attacking player receives the ball: when the ball was last played by another attacker: 1) Was the player in the opponent's half? 2) Was the player closer to the opponent's goal line than the ball? 3) Were there fewer than two opposing players between the the player and the opponent's goal line? 4) Was the player involved in active play? (NOTE; NOT "Interfering with play") It's perfectly possible for a player to be in an offside position whilst not committing an offence 5) Was the attacking player seeking to gain an advantage by being in the position they are in? If all these conditions are met, and the player in question has not received the ball direct from a Goal Kick, corner or throw - in, he should be judged offside and an indirect free kick given to the previous defending team It should be fairly simple to judge that, with, or without, VAR. For all those who say the law should be abolished, it's the one that forces teams to play tactically, and players to develop technique and skill.

Stupendous stuff! Thought about sending it to the Swiss Tourist Office?😁

Didn't they do something similar for Latics last season? Attempting footy on the train tomorrow, to Trafford F.C. in the Trophy. That old fogey's pass is going to work its backside off!

Actually, for a club to be in the non - league pyramid above step 6 (level 10) the ground grading regulations specify a certain amount of covered seating, depending which level you're at

Eye - watering debt levels (over 100% of GDP, up from around 80% in 2010, although it ought to be said that around 35% of that is owed by the government to itself), and a huge amount of waste and, dare I say it, fraud.